Incompatible weights remain visible
Identify conflicting source accounts, explain the basis for choosing among them or retaining uncertainty, and make the narrative’s degree of precision agree with that decision.
Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand · 191 weeksIncompatible weights remain visible
The main narrative presents several incompatible figures for Louie’s weight at capture. The corresponding note traces different numbers to a postwar affidavit, early and later interviews, personal notes and Phil’s accounts instead of settling on one exact figure.
The reporting choice preserves the supported general point of extreme weight loss while exposing the uncertainty of numerical precision. The note supplies a route back to the versions underlying that restraint.
The source in context.
The notes identify interviews, documents and other sources by chapter and sometimes explain conflicts between them. Their opening also states a citation convention that leaves the author’s many Zamperini interviews undated.
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The reporting choice preserves the supported general point of extreme weight loss while exposing the uncertainty of numerical precision. The note supplies a route back to the versions underlying that restraint.
Its limit
The brief phrase used in the main narrative is not reproduced here as a quotation from the note. This example is an original structural paraphrase, and the sources themselves have not been independently audited.
Source & edition
Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, inspected Random House electronic text, copyright 2010, eISBN 978-0-679-60375-7; LF anchors in OCR-damaged extraction.
Supplied text, lines 6588–6590. The description is an original editorial paraphrase, not a quotation.
Read the complete whole-source AI synthesis and ordered segment section summaries, checked every numbered chapter heading against the supplied contents and body, inspected selected openings/endings, and directly checked the narrative and source-note contexts of all admitted examples. Draft overclaims and part-boundary errors were corrected. This is a source-checked editorial pass, not a second complete reading or independent-model review.
Inspected Random House electronic text: copyright 2010, eISBN 978-0-679-60375-7, file version v3.1. Filename’s 2014 paperback label is not treated as edition evidence.